"During Hurricane Irma and Michael, they used our software to identify where were the key infrastructures that needed to be helped, or people that needed to be saved," Kaplan said.

Kaplan believes that for a much cheaper price tag than President Trump's wall, the U.S. Border Patrol could hire thousands of new agents and still buy tech like his to detect threats along the border in real time.

"Sensors, drones, augmented reality, artificial intelligence — all of this is more of a holistic approach, where I think that taking multiple types of data and video and technologies is where the answer is."

That answer is not far-fetched. The U.S. government has been flying drones along the country's borders for almost 50 years. And border agents flew more drone missions in 2017 than ever before.

But President Donald Trump seems unimpressed.

Trump: "Having drones and various other forms of sensors, they're all fine, but they're not going to stop the problems that this country has."

And he's not the only one. The libertarian think-tank the Cato Institute says the current drone program at the border is inefficient and raises serious privacy concerns.

Kaplan admits in a Quartz piece he co-wrote that his technological solutions are imperfect. Still, when it comes to border security, the CEO believes we shouldn't "turn a blind eye to the advantages afforded by potentially game-changing technologies."